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A life where one has what they want and how they want it. It's a good life, I certainly do want the things I want. It's also a painful life, for to have things is to soon be tired of having them, developing new voids, and being tormented all over again.

Give me soft life to be happy; give me soft life to not be happy. A soft life is like all other lives, we realize its limitations as soon as we have it.

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Ahh you’ve read between my lines. I recognize that in order to have all the softness I wrote I have had to welcome the hardness of the world in order to actually appreciate the soft. We must accept and acknowledge the opposite of what we want. I cannot know love with knowing heartbreak and hate. And that’s okay, that’s life✨

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Life is a study of contrasts, and it's hard to know a thing without knowing it's opposite. A short but deep piece of writing. Will be checking out your other posts as well. Thank you Carrington.

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Thank you. I needed to read this. I am softening my expectations and using "I did my best" as a more helpful benchmark. I am softening my body by breathing deeply, and pulling my shoulders away from my ears.

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Letting a chord ring out on my guitar until the sounds of nature replace it.

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Soft life for me right now is giving myself grace when I need weeks like the last where I slept as much as I needed to, even during the day, to recover from bad sleep.

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Amazing!🌹

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Fantastic

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This is poetry.

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Beautiful!!!

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